I just saw a video from La Thuile where Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli announce that the particle discovered by the LHC is a Higgs boson but maybe not perhaps the only Higgs boson. Higgs was present and was applauded.
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On the heels of the newest data released by physicists last week at the world-renowned CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Conference held in La Thuile, Italy regarding The Higgs Boson “The God Particle”, Science Channel premieres a special episode of the Morgan Freeman hosted THROUGH THE WORMHOLE: IS THERE A GOD PARTICLE? on Wednesday, March 20 at 9PM ET/PT.

... Yet there is still some uncertainty as to whether the particle is indeed a Higgs, and if so, what type it is.

Results at the Moriond meeting in Italy suggest strongly that the particle's "spin" is consistent with a Higgs.

Teams from the two Higgs-hunting experiments, Atlas and CMS, analysed two-and-a-half times more data than were available in July in an effort to pin down not only the particle's existence, but also something about its character.

All that is conclusively established is that the particle is in the family of bosons, but researchers had been careful since July to describe it as "Higgs-like". ...

... The results reported at the conference - based on the entire data sets from 2011 and 2012 - much more strongly suggest that the new particle's "spin" is zero - consistent with any of the theoretical varieties of Higgs.

"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," ...

All very interesting...

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"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," ..

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Hold on a minute here. We don't even know if it is a Higgs Boson, now they are suggesting there might be more than one type of it? Talk about hedging ones bets.

On the heels of the newest data released by physicists last week at the world-renowned CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Conference held in La Thuile, Italy regarding The Higgs Boson “The God Particle”, Science Channel premieres a special episode of the Morgan Freeman hosted THROUGH THE WORMHOLE: IS THERE A GOD PARTICLE? on Wednesday, March 20 at 9PM ET/PT.

According to comments made on that episode of "Through the Wormhole" related to the Higgs Boson even though scientists now believe they have detected the particle new questions and possibilities have developed. One is that there might be up to 5 different Higgs Bosons and/or it/they may be composed of either smaller components. Will it ever end? Or is this just a ploy to justify seeking more funds to keep their jobs?Bob DeWoody

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According to comments made on that episode of "Through the Wormhole" related to the Higgs Boson even though scientists now believe they have detected the particle new questions and possibilities have developed. One is that there might be up to 5 different Higgs Bosons and/or it/they may be composed of either smaller components. Will it ever end? Or is this just a ploy to justify seeking more funds to keep their jobs?

There was a book by two Italian physicists years ago, "La spirale delle alte energie", who advanced the same suspicion. But it was never translated in English, as far as I know. Prof. Emilio Segre' said something very similar in an article on the "Endeavor" magazine in 1972. But it is better to spend money on particle accelerators than on weapons, this is my humble opinion.
Tullio

According to comments made on that episode of "Through the Wormhole" related to the Higgs Boson even though scientists now believe they have detected the particle new questions and possibilities have developed. One is that there might be up to 5 different Higgs Bosons and/or it/they may be composed of either smaller components. Will it ever end? Or is this just a ploy to justify seeking more funds to keep their jobs?

There was a book by two Italian physicists years ago, "La spirale delle alte energie", who advanced the same suspicion. But it was never translated in English, as far as I know. Prof. Emilio Segre' said something very similar in an article on the "Endeavor" magazine in 1972. But it is better to spend money on particle accelerators than on weapons, this is my humble opinion.
Tullio

In my opinion I am afraid the only reason the money is being spent is because someone thinks the results of the research can be militarized into who knows what kind of god awful weapon like a matter-antimatter bomb. I hope I am wrong and maybe a little too pessimistic. Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

In my opinion I am afraid the only reason the money is being spent is because someone thinks the results of the research can be militarized into who knows what kind of god awful weapon like a matter-antimatter bomb. I hope I am wrong and maybe a little too pessimistic.

As a matter of fact, the "N" in CERN stands for Nuclear, while nuclear research is not the main objective of CERN. So politicians think "maybe they will give us more bang for a buck" and so finance subnuclear physics.
Tullio

OK, the Higgs boson has tentatively been identified only to open up another Pandora's box of possible particles more basic than the Higgs. Where is all of this leading? I wonder how long the various European nation sponsors of the LHC will continue to lavish large sums of money on the facility without gaining any useable technology from the experiments. Knowledge for it's own sake is nice but it doesn't pay the bills or feed the masses.

So is there any experiment at CERN that has a high probability of developing into some useful technology, other than a bigger more deadly bomb?Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

OK, the Higgs boson has tentatively been identified only to open up another Pandora's box of possible particles more basic than the Higgs. Where is all of this leading? I wonder how long the various European nation sponsors of the LHC will continue to lavish large sums of money on the facility without gaining any useable technology from the experiments. Knowledge for it's own sake is nice but it doesn't pay the bills or feed the masses.

So is there any experiment at CERN that has a high probability of developing into some useful technology, other than a bigger more deadly bomb?

Discover first, Bob, then look to utilise if possible, second.

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The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is,"

As I understood it they found a new elementary particle that appears to fit the standard model almost perfectly. But now they are hedging their bets by saying it is "Higgs type" particle, not "THE" Higgs, and there may be more "Higgs like" particles to be found. The way that things seem to be going is that they will keep discovering new particles all the time without getting to a final conclusion about anything.